What’s Your Moonshot?

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

Finn Kyland on Ireland

31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment

From http://www.finnkydland.com/wp-content/uploads/Policy-Consistency-and-Economic-Growth.pdf

Not a good time for @NZInlandRevenue to go offline

31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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Eamonn Butler on the knowledge problem

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by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: , , ,

Steven N.S. Cheung on the Communist economy

29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=_VAd-VhDlncC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=Economic+Organization+and+Transaction+Costs+Authors+Authors+and+affiliations+Steven+N.+S.+Cheung&source=bl&ots=NhcvVq2xiD&sig=ACfU3U02P5iKFkUwlUQ5bnK5h4ETGvZmQg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjir8H1lb_oAhUT4zgGHWaMCc8Q6AEwBHoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Coronavirus: Do socialists understand socialism?

29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags:

Spare a thought for those locked in their rooms at backpackers hotels and camping grounds #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem

27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health economics

From https://covid19.govt.nz/government-actions/covid-19-alert-level/essential-businesses/#additional

Did real business cycle theory ignore depressions?

27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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Cabinet must be adjudicating 24/7 on which businesses stay open #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem

26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health economics

From https://covid19.govt.nz/government-actions/covid-19-alert-level/essential-businesses/

Japan is highly indebted

26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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How much of 20th century growth were one-off productivity gains?

25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice

From https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/HHJK.pdf

Stalin’s Paranoid Military Purges – The Great Terror | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 4 of 4

24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: ,

Stephen Pinker on equity feminism and gender feminism

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Should social media platforms censor hate speech? | Nadine Strossen | Big Think

23 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: ,

Edward Prescott on the Great Depression

23 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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